"Ten Future Technologies that Will Not Exist" Topic

"The hard truth is that the only lightsabers that will exist are at ILM or in the local toy store, these uber geek-weapon are impossible, according to science. Light does not self-terminate to a nice sword-like lenght, nor would it be able to deflect incoming blaster bolts or other laser swords. Some fans then say the lightsabers are actually plasma-touch saber. Well, that wouldn't word either. Plasma burns too hot for a human to hold it that close to their hand, with or without the Force, they're going to get burned, especially with those nice robes and beards. Then the issue of a power source being compact enough to fit into a flashlight sized device, and have the juice to slice through Sith Lords. Simply that is a complete work of space fantasy. Of course, as a friend of mine once said about Star Wars: "It's space fantasy, and how can you have fantasy without a sword?"

My wife is looking forward to the day when Star Trek teleportation is commonplace and she can beam to work and to New Mexico. However, during an video interview Dr. Kaku explained that modern science can teleport a single photon about 100 miles, and within my lifetime, we could teleport something as complex as a virus. The issue is transporting some thing as complex as Lt. Worf from ship to shore, who is composed of 50 trillion cells and would require something on the order of millions of trillions of current technology computers to store that level of data. Try that with your HA-9000! Then we comes to the troubling issue of dematerialization of your body, then reassembly at some distance away, and how that transporter version of you is a copy, and the original has been destroyed. This would be near impossible to break you down on a subatomic level, then rebuild you atom-by-atom until you are you, that's not even taking in account the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle! I guess in the future we wouldn't be thinking in portals…pity…."

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Armand

Oh, really?

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The technology doesn't exist now, but will in the future… ;-)

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Armand

Well, that was depressing.

Everything is impossible…until it isn't.

These seem just as impossible as trans-Atlantic flight, wireless communication worldwide and drugs to cure cancer would have been in 1823

Glup!

Armand

That article is ancient and is not making use of any updated science.

@Tgerritson- now try parrying one of those with another.
@Zephyr1- Highly unreliable. Especially since some of these things may even be redundant, when a more practical way to do the same thing comes along beforehand
@Frederick – we only had to discover how to achieve those things, not warp reality.
@Augustus – updated science is not giving us teleportation of matter and FTL. Deal with it.

(smile)

Armand